Engine problem, asking for a friend...

Sham Squire

So apologies that I can't expand on this but just got a call from a friend who's just had her car returned to her having lent it to her mother. The problem she describes is the car revs high in low gear without getting any real speed going and will only go at regular speed once she gets it into 4th gear. Any ideas what her mother could have done to the car?

doolox

Could be a clutch problem.

Melodeon

Sounds like a slipping clutch.

Sham Squire

Thanks very much. I'll pass it on.

Sham Squire

Any idea how she might have done it? This is not the first time she's returned the car with an issue.

Melodeon

Clumsy or unsympathetic use of a clutch will wear it out in no time.

biko

Take car to a mechanic. It may not be clutch at all.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Most likely a slipping clutch caused by riding the clutch while taking off. It doesn't happen over night and so the clutch was possibly well worn anyway and your friends mother just finished it off with her 'old lady' style of driving.

07Lapierre

Melodeon wrote: »

Clumsy or unsympathetic use of a clutch will wear it out in no time.

Ah go easy on the Mother-in-Law

If it is the clutch...then it could have been on its way out before she drove it. Howe old is the car? What milage is on it?

Sham Squire

Sorry I can't answer the questions regarding the car but it's not my car so I'd have to ask her. Think it's pretty old with high mileage and the clutch hasn't been done before so it might not have been "old lady driving" but if I were a bettting man....

Del2005

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Most likely a slipping clutch caused by riding the clutch while taking off. It doesn't happen over night and so the clutch was possibly well worn anyway and your friends mother just finished it off with her 'old lady' style of driving.

You can destroy a brand new clutch driving out of the garage. If it's the clutch once it's out its fairly easy to see what happened to it.

OP The smell of a burnt clutch is fairly unique. Is there a strange smell around the car.

Sham Squire

Just spoke to her, funny exhaust smell apparently.

Sham Squire

Sorry, should have said she's getting a funny exhaust type smell inside the car

homer90

^^ 99.9% clutch slipping.

Supergurrier

Pressure plate in clutch gone.

Was probably on way out before that but higher revving pushed it over the edge.

Sham Squire

Supergurrier wrote: »

Pressure plate in clutch gone.

Was probably on way out before that but higher revving pushed it over the edge.

Any idea how much that'll cost to fix and how long it might take?

BreadnBuddha

Supergurrier wrote: »

Pressure plate in clutch gone.

Was probably on way out before that but higher revving pushed it over the edge.

Pressure plate?

Friction plate.

BreadnBuddha

Sham Squire wrote: »

Any idea how much that'll cost to fix and how long it might take?

What's the make, model, year, fuel type and engine size? Without that, something around €350 is a starting point, could be a lot more. Should be in and out in a day.

gavman1

BreadnBuddha wrote: »

What's the make, model, year, fuel type and engine size? Without that, something around €350 is a starting point, could be a lot more. Should be in and out in a day.

Obviously the mother in laws fault.she was taking out all her frustrations built up over many years.....
Def clutch gone lad